Innovation News

Bridgeton, NJ - Lou Cooperhouse, director of the Rutgers Food Innovation Center, a globally recognized food business incubation program, will be presenting his research on best practices in food industry entrepreneurship development and business incubation at two leading national conferences during the month of September 2015. Cooperhouse will be a presenter of a half-day intensive training session on “Building Sustainable Food Incubators and Accelerators” at the National Business Incubation Association (NBIA) Training Institute, which will be held from September 8-11 in Orlando, FL.

New Brunswick, NJ - The researchers at Rutgers found in a new study that overindulging especially in high-fat food could be caused not by a lack of fortitude, but by the unmanageable hormonal response triggered by an imbalance in the brain. If a person lacks the willpower to stop over eating, the best way a person can deal with such ordeal is to have a series of strategic fight-backfoods ready. These are foods that will keep thecravingsof a person at bay and at the same time have their brain satisfied by signaling to the stomach that it is full. Foods that can stop overeating are actually available.

North Brunswick, NJ - According to Joshua Burd of NJBiz, "When Christian Kopfli helped start Chromocell Corp. in 2002, it was similar to many other biotech startups in the state: It was a small lab focusing on research. In this case, on the use of receptor cells in the human body for therapeutics and pain relief."

Ewing, NJ - Until recently, all Mehak Aswani, Pauleena Pal, and Sheenal Parikh had to show for their future restaurant, Tikka Roll, was an Excel file full of projected sales figures and long list of needs, including a fridge, a sink, and a fryer. But after winning first prize in the 2015 Mayo Business Plan Competition on April 8, the three seniors have $22,000 to put toward making the restaurant a reality.

New Brunswick, NJ – Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, developed a new Business Portal, designed in consultation with industry leaders to serve New Jersey’s corporate community. The Business Portal offers users easy access to four key areas—research, technology licensing, professional development and recruiting—and provides two robust internal search functions and clear pathways to Rutgers’ Corporate Engagement Team, Office of Research Commercialization and Rutgers Translational Sciences.

New Brunswick, NJ - A team of food scientists at Rutgers University found the use of food coloring may help them probe the quality of edible goods. Results show that the fluorescence in some food colors could act as embedded sensors for food's physical consistency in products such as yogurt or strawberry milk.